Iunmin

Iunmin in hieroglyphics
Iunmin (Iun Min) Iwn Mnw Pillar of the Min

Iunmin was a prince of the ancient Egyptian 4th Dynasty . He was a son of Pharaoh Chephren ; nothing is known about his mother. Under Chephren's successor, Mykerinos , he held the office of vizier and was thus the highest official after the king. Iunmin was married to a woman named Chamerernebti.

tomb

Door roll and architrave of the grave LG 92 after Lepsius

Iunmin owns the rock grave LG 92 on the Central Field in Giza . It has a large limestone porch. The roll of the door and the architrave at the entrance to the tomb give the name and title of the owner and his wife; there are no other inscriptions. The tomb of Junmin stands out from the neighboring tombs of the same date of origin because of its enormous size.

literature

• Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt . The American University in Cairo Press, London 2004, ISBN 977-424-878-3 , pp. 52-61.
• Selim Hassan : Excavations at Giza . Vol. 7, Egyptian University Faculty of Arts, Oxford UK / Cairo 1932-1960, pp. 13-21.
• Peter Jánosi : Giza in the 4th dynasty. The building history and occupancy of a necropolis in the Old Kingdom. Volume I: The mastabas of the core cemeteries and the rock graves . Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, pp. 393–399 ISBN 3-7001-3244-1 , ( PDF; 8.9 MB ).
• Karl Richard Lepsius : Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia . Second section, 3rd vol., Plate 34g ( PDF; 16.4 MB ).
• Karl Richard Lepsius: Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia . Text I, p. 113 ( PDF; 19 MB ).
• Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss : Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. III. Memphis . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1974, p. 237 ( PDF 30.5 MB ).